fix(web): toggle the terminal from a bottom-edge tab

[saphid]

Problem

The terminal toggle sat in the top-right titlebar, and the terminal appeared instantly at the bottom of the window, at the far side of the screen from the click. It was hard to see what the click had done.

Fix

• Replace the titlebar toggle with a small terminal-icon tab attached to the drawer's top edge at the bottom-right of the chat column. The tab takes no layout space and moves with the drawer as it opens, closes, and resizes.
• The drawer opens and closes over at least 200 ms (usePanelAnimationSettings(200)), so it visibly rises from the bottom. Longer configured panel durations still apply. Reduced motion and navigation restoration stay immediate. The Motion setting description says this. Maintainer call: with the product default of 0 ms, this means the drawer now animates by default.
• The closed active drawer stays mounted (and inert) so the close transition can finish and reopening reuses the viewport. Navigating away releases it (reconcileMountedTerminalThreadIds). A failed libghostty setup is retried when the drawer next becomes visible, so "close and reopen the terminal to retry" still works. A stale, cancelled setup cannot mark the current one as failed.
• Compact layouts: while the right-panel sheet is open, the sheet has the only toggle, and using it closes the sheet. When the inline right panel is maximized, the titlebar toggle comes back because the chat column (and its tab) is collapsed and inert.
• The tab uses a new drawer size and variant on the shared Toggle primitive. Header instances keep the ghost styling.

Rebased onto current main as a single commit. The web app is the only client with this control, so desktop, which wraps web, gets it too. Mobile has its own terminal controls and is unchanged. No contract or server changes.

UI changes

These recordings were made on an earlier revision of this branch. Same isolated web fixture, 1280 × 800, dark appearance, 280 px drawer. Before: 6270a6f88, after: cc92226bc.

After: the tab moves with the terminal as it opens and closes.

Before: the terminal appears and disappears instantly from the top-right control.

Stills and videos

Before video · After video

The compact-sheet and maximized-panel follow-ups have not had an integrated browser pass. They are covered by source review and typecheck only.

Verification (on the rebased head)

• cd apps/web && vp test run src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts src/panelAnimations.test.tsx: 145 tests pass. They cover retaining the drawer, releasing it on navigation, and the 200 ms minimum with reduced motion and suppression.
• apps/web typecheck passes. Targeted vp lint on the touched files shows only warnings that already exist on main.

Coordination trace: T3 thread 9277c060-1cf3-43ed-9b46-c6676f6decd1

Implemented by GPT-6 in the Codex/T3 harness. Rebased and updated by Claude Opus 5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added terminal drawer controls above mounted terminals and at the bottom of the right-panel sheet, with updated styling and icon.
  • Terminal setup retries when a previously failed terminal is closed and reopened.
  • Active terminal drawers remain mounted until navigating to another thread.
  • Terminal drawer animations respect reduced-motion settings and use a minimum duration.

• Bug Fixes

  • Unopened terminal drawers are not mounted unnecessarily.

• Documentation

  • Clarified terminal drawer animation timing and reduced-motion behavior.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes the terminal’s effective default behavior from immediate open/close to a 200 ms animation and alters drawer lifecycle and control placement across layouts. It also has an unresolved layout concern with limited integrated browser verification for compact states.

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[saphid]

Independent automated first-pass review (Amp/Astra, read-only): 3 findings, verified against source. 2 real, fixed in dcf8eb8a7c: (1) with the inline right panel maximized the new toggle is clipped inside the collapsed w-0 chat column yet stays keyboard-focusable — wrapper now inert while collapsed; (2) retained closed drawers no longer remount, so the documented "close and reopen the terminal to retry" recovery for failed libghostty init stopped working — failed setups now retry on next visibility. Dismissed 1: the 200 ms minimum overriding a 0 ms setting is intentional and documented in the settings description this PR updates. Focused web tests (183) and targeted lint pass; lint shows no new warnings.

[saphid]

Friendly review nudge @juliusmarminge @maria-rcks — this is mergeable and hasn't had a maintainer pass yet. Independent bot/agent reviews have run with findings triaged in-commit (see receipts in earlier comments). Full queue context and status: #10688.

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The terminal drawer retains the active thread while closed and retries failed setup when the viewport becomes visible. Its animation uses a 200 ms minimum duration. A shared toggle appears in the drawer layout and the right-panel sheet.

Changes

Terminal drawer behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Animation settings and drawer presentation apps/web/src/panelAnimations.ts, apps/web/src/panelAnimations.test.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx	usePanelAnimationSettings accepts a minimum duration. The terminal drawer uses a 200 ms minimum, hidden content is inert, and tests cover duration and suppression behavior.
Terminal mounting and setup retry apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.logic.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ThreadTerminalDrawer.tsx	The active thread remains mounted after the drawer closes. Failed terminal setup retries when the viewport becomes visible again.
Drawer toggle integration apps/web/src/components/chat/PanelLayoutControls.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/toggle.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx	A shared TerminalDrawerToggle supports attached and floating presentations. ChatView renders it above mounted drawers or at the bottom of the right-panel sheet.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: cestercian

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to aef0d

Users can keep the terminal session through drawer closing, retry setup after reopening, and access the toggle in the supported layouts. No material regression is established, so the change is mergeable.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: moving the terminal toggle to a bottom-edge tab.
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In `@apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx`:
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This relocates the terminal control and makes the drawer animate for at least 200 ms even when the panel setting is 0 ms. The PR explicitly calls that default change a maintainer decision, but no maintainer approval is recorded here or in the linked discussion. The prior approval rule covers intentional product behavior changes. Please discuss the control placement and animation default in Ideas, obtain scope approval, and request reconsideration. The reported difficulty noticing the existing terminal toggle remains useful feedback.

[saphid]

Following up on the closure: I opened an Ideas discussion with the narrowed proposal and its evidence, #15942.

What changed from this PR:

• The forced 200 ms minimum is gone. The drawer follows the existing panel-animation setting exactly (0 ms by default) and reduced motion.
• The titlebar toggle is no longer moved. The proposal only adds a small tab on the drawer's top edge.
• The drawer-retention and setup-retry changes are dropped. The drawer lifecycle is untouched.

The implementation is ready on saphid:fix/terminal-drawer-edge-tab (2 files, +69/−18, on main a1d9d72aef), with before/after recordings in the discussion. I won't open a PR unless the direction is approved there.